DIESEL ENGINED
SHIPS.
AN ASSET TO AMERICA.
OBJECTS OF CONVERSION PROGRAMME.
WASHINGTON.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 7th,
THE LOSS OF THE S.S. "NEGROS."
SUDDEN
TYPHOON
CATASTROPHE.
108 DROWNED: 74 SURVIVORS.
states:-
CHINESE STUDENTS AND
MANUAL LABOUR.
EXAMPLE OF THE PRINCE
OF WALES.
NEED FOR COLLEGE WORK.
SHOP EXPERIENCE.
prising, however, that engineering graduates have found employment in China in spite of these obstacles. Speaking generally, engineeving. graduates prefer life in the treaty parts to going inland, some refuse o go into China, whatever the inducements. They do not like to leave the family circle. It usually happens that the British engiucer ing graduate org away from his "home town." The Chinese 471- gineering
graduste SOCIE mort
anxious to settle down in his native place so as to be near to his family.
important portion of the training in the Engineering de- partments of the University. He believes that every Chinese student, whether he proposes to enter the professions of law, politics or to earn a living in commerce would benefit by a few months of instruc tion in an Engineering workshop.
The Many Times of June 1st
An interesting article on the in and June 2nd gives further particu-struction of Chinese students of In conclusion, Professor Middle- With a half dozen big OCENT-
lars of the loss on May 28th of the engineering, with special reference ton Smith says that an experience with 8.5. Xegros a brief account of which to the work being accomplished at of fifteen years in close contnet w going motor vessels now lying the
the Ho Tung workshop (bordering Chinese Engineering graduates seas, the United States Shipping
was telegraphed at the time by Paktulum Road), appears in the makes the writer believe that the
IN under the workshop training Beard is casting up accounts on the ! Reuters Our Manila contemporary Far Eastern Review
perhaps the C.A.M.S." (Professor C. initials of benefits advantages And
A. Middleton Smith, of the Hong "Dieselized fret." Greater speed,
Kong University). lower aperating cost, larger capa- vity are gains found for several American ships already motarized under the first installments of the $25,000,000 fund granted by Con press For the conversion of ateners bail during the war to metorships The Dieselization programs may be continued by the band until the 215,000,000 yet unpledged has been utilized.
The vessels which have been ren- verted ja matorships are the Tumpets Butoni, West Boňaker, Word Cue sela, Samukla and frien Pity. All kave had rigid sa trinis and proved
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MANILA, June 1st. Que-hundred passengers, two off- cers- the captain and the chief engineer, and six members of the crew, or a total of 10% persons, are reported missing as a result of the
in the Engineering students might sinking of the inter-island steamer
obtain practical instruction and Negenz on Saturday afternoon tive experience with machine tools, etc.
It is often argued, says the miles south of Banton island, near
writer that students should go Romblon, according to a report re- crived at Constabulary Headquar-direct into a big works such as Tai- ters this morning from the provin-koa and Kowloon Dock; the Uni- cial commander of Tayabas. The versity workshop may be regarded report is corroborated by similar as an introduction of such experi telegrams reveived at the Executive once. Chinese undergraduates will Turian, the Custom House and the not do rough work without this in- treduction. If they go into a large Bureau of posts.
works knowing nothing of work- do not learn under the unaccustom- shop practice they are nervous and
change from the conditions af school and family life to be thrown into the rough and tumble of working alongside coolies without proper instructors. After a period in the University workshop they can do
The building in question is the most recently completed building of the University and is uamed after the donor, Sir Robert Ho Tung. who presented a sum of $100,000 för |
workshop where the provision of
The steamer Negros left Romblon at Thursday (May 26th) with 150 passengers and consider themselves satisfactury for heavyable cargo on board. It left ported conditions. It is too great a duty. Eventually, all six of the two days when, Berting unfair wea- ships will be placed in the Farther due to the Pheife typhoon, the 3.50 o'clock Eastern services, and it is planned ship fundered at
Saturday afternoon between the to put other Dieselized boats in the islands of Simara and Banton. long voyage services as soon as con- version is accomplished.
Substitution of the Diesel engine for the steam engine eliminates fire aten, saves fuel and engine repair, the board reports. About a third of the furt required by the oil burning steam engine is used by Diesel ships, whose tank espicity kices them a cruising ruulius almost equal to the eireumference of the gior, so that oft enough for the round-trip. New York Far Eastern
hu bronplat PATI, may cheapest
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Voyage Out Short, Speed of 11 to 12 knots an hour compares favourably with that of 10 + 143 knots by stead vessels. On an 11,000-mile run, such as that between New York and Sydney, this makes a difference of from five to seven days at sex and presnés a far greater attraction to the ship per of goods who is urged to patronize American ships,
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1927.
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It is frequently urged by en-showers; Q-Squalls; R-Rain; T damaged Packages will be examin gineers in practice that the Uni-Thunder. varsity graduate in engineering is
afraid to dirty his hands.” That' statement is frequently made cot- cerning Chinese engineering grad-
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HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.
The first neer, Severino de Guzinan, taking charge of a life boat, succeeded in landing on of the angers, 20 of the crew, and a barrio three jaior officers Bondo, Mulanay, Tayabas, last Sunday after struggling with the rough sea for more than twenty- four hours. The fate of the rest of
A ditheulty in the past has been that the graduate has had very the passengers and crew is still unknown, but it is believed, in little opportunity to dirty bis jew of the absence of reports hands. Unless he becomes aequaint the contrary, that they have perished with machine tools under con- ditions such as obtain in a college Among the missing are Captain workshop where an experienced in- Juan Altoonga, master of the ill-structor shows him how to handle Laird vessel, and his two children the tool it is difficult to see how he Tacs. who wer on board with him. can get the experience. There are
no instructors in a big works and Wed. Nicolas Santiago, the chief gu gineer, is also missing. Among the in the rush of modern industria!
issing passengers are Postmaster conditions a student fails to grasp Thur. Names of Romtilon and his daugh what is being done unless he has
preliminary training Fri. aoine ter, and a score of students from had
with machine tools. Capiz.
ed at sea.
Transport Difficult.
The survivors now at Mulanay cannot be brought to Manila im- mediately using to dithealties in
The the transportation,
municipal The general character
been officials of Mulagay, the sanitary Dieselized vessels has not changed by the conversions, except personnel and three constabulary that the decreased quantity of oil suldiers are doing relief work there burned makes it possible to carry now. less fuel and this increases the dead-weight cargi-carrying capacity of the vessels about 300 tons. Each of the ships has her given a thorough overhealing and accom modations for 1 or 19 passengers have been installed.
MANILA, June 2nd.
From June 7th to 13th, 1927. HIGH WATER,
Hong
Kong
Standard
Time.
h.
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ed by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas (Marine Surveyors) at 10 am. on the 8th June, 1927.
by
LOW WATER.
Hong
Height.
Kong
Standard
Time.
Height
b. m. 1. In.
7 No infer. h. w. Noiufer. 1.
1 52 53 10 18 a1 7 8m 1446m10 26
3 40 49 11 5 9m 6249m 5188 5 144 7 11 40 2 0 0 52 #3 2
10 m 6 44 2
7 116 6m 0 23 21
1 38 196 Im 0 56 2 3 0 7 54a4 2 16 a 7 37 6
27 2 4 841492 52'1
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If any young Chinese should still Bat. have a notion that manual labour is undignified is might be well to Sun, 12 remind him that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, an Honorary Graduate Mon. 13 m took a course of practical instruc of the University of Hong Kong, tien in his youth in the Engineer- ing workshops of Osborne "Naval College. In actual fact, the short WITHOUT PURE BLOOD HEALTH 8 IMPOSSIBLE. experience of a year's working in the Ho-tung workshop has prov- ed that
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Last moment arrangements made by officials of the Yangco Steamship Company, owners of the ill-fated Steamer Negros, and Colonel Lucien R. Sweet of the Constabulary, re- presenting the Governor General,
Handicaps To Development. The purposes of the Government's called for the cancellation of the
There was a sincere belief during motorship programine are twofold; planned trip by the rescue ships. Hest, to give the American Merastate and P. Sontuu to southern the first few years of the Univer chant Marine a nucleus about which Tayabas where the survivors of the sity that Hong Kong engineering a modern feet enn be constructed shipwreck landed. The two ships graduates would develop the ua an, sendly, to stimulate the de- were to have left carly this forn-tural resources of China. Some of us had visions of railway and road sig and manufacture of Dieseling. engines by Americans, and develop skiited workmen and Diesel en
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The decision not to send the flood prevention, mining work, ete.. resene ships followed the receipt of in China. Instead of that we have
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Guzman, chief officer of the Negro Engineering schemes cannot be cur Inglish Price 3s. (either remedy). The VETARZO REMEDIES CO.,
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The telegrain also states that early 150 lives were lost. A Bail- FRHT WITH SEPOY OUTLAW. Loat which presumably picked up a number of the surviviors was lost
MADRAS, May 28th. Details have been received from Krishnagiri, a town on the border of Mysore State, in the Salem dis- trict of Madras Presidency, describ ing a thrilling battle between a sejoy, who had deserted and be volne terror the countryside, and the police.
Budaka, the sopoy, who Was wanted for five murders, was traced to an isolated but after four years' search, by Police Inspector Chenua Keshav Iyengar, of the Madras police, who tracked the man down and surrounded his hut with thirty arned policemen.
al sea.
Storm Another Reason. Aunther reason why it was de- cided to cancel the trip of the rescue vessels is the prevailing in- clement weather due to the Pacifie typhoon. It was stated that no vessel van go ashore in southern Tayabas in this kind of weather.
The steamer Negros had a gross tonnage of 280, and was allowed in its certificate of registry to carry 132 passengers, aside from the offi vers and crew. However, the ves- sel carried 150 passengers on its ill- fated trip, or 18 passengers in ex- cess of what it was allowed by Cus-
Budaka was called upon to sur- totus regulations. render but preferred to give battle. A constable, Subramanyam, who
According to private despatches
peeped into the hat, was promptly received here, the catastrophe or shot dead by the desperate mancurred so suddenly that there was inside.
Hut Set On Fire,
The latter then started shooting indiscriminately from an aperture in the roof and several other con Rtables were wounded.
The Inspector thereupon set fire to the hut which was quickly en- veloped in roaring fans.
Still the man held out and as the police wished to captured him alive, they broke down the door of the hut, whereupon he rushed out like un infuriated tiger with a loaded rifle and revolver, and resumed his reckless shooting.
The police were forced to reply and the man fell dead, hit by thir teen out of sixteen shots aimed at
him.
The constable who was killed by Budaka was given an impressive funeral by the people of Krishna giri.-Straits Timei,
only time to lower one life bont and it was this 'bout that safely reached the barrio of Bondu, Muladay,
vivors. Sepe, with 74 8
de Guzman, chief
officer of the Vegroe who command- ed the life boat, is authority for this statement. This attement is believed to have dispelled all doubts regarding the fate of the 109 persons reported missing in despatches received in the city yes. terday. They died at sen.
The Santua left at 6 o'clock this morning, but not for southern Ta She resumed her regular ynbas. run to ports in the Visayas.
From Governor Perez of Tayabas this morning enne the report that the first and second officer and the second and third engineer of the steamer Negros have been rescued. Twenty members of the crew and 50 passengers have also been saved.
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